Seven states where Democrats got more votes for Congress than Republicans but won fewer seats

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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

To understand what’s going on here, you have to know the definition†of the word “gerrymandering.” It stands for the practice of manipulating the boundaries of a legislative district to favor one party or class.

Republicans and Democrats alike have long histories of gerrymandering. But the political imbalance created by this practice was particularly striking in last week’s congressional elections, which saw Democrats win the overall majority of votes while Republicans won most of the seats in the U.S. House.